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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 3rd of January 1431 | EVENT | Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon. |
| 3rd of January 1496 | EVENT | Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine. |
| 3rd of January 1521 | EVENT | Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem. |
| 3rd of January 1749 | EVENT | Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont. |
| 3rd of January 1777 | EVENT | American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton. |
| 3rd of January 1782 | EVENT | Sylhet District in north-east Bangladesh is established |
| 3rd of January 1815 | EVENT | Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia. |
| 3rd of January 1823 | EVENT | Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico. |
| 3rd of January 1848 | EVENT | Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Republic of Liberia. |
| 3rd of January 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States. |
| 3rd of January 1868 | EVENT | Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Choshu seize power. |
| 3rd of January 1870 | EVENT | The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins. |
| 3rd of January 1888 | EVENT | The refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time. |
| 3rd of January 1925 | EVENT | Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy. |
| 3rd of January 1932 | EVENT | Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop revolt by banana workers fired by United Fruit. |
| 3rd of January 1933 | EVENT | Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States. |
| 3rd of January 1938 | EVENT | The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
| 3rd of January 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero. |
| 3rd of January 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Admiral Chester W Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Japan. |
| 3rd of January 1947 | EVENT | Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time. |
| 3rd of January 1953 | EVENT | Frances Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress. |
| 3rd of January 1956 | EVENT | A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower. |
| 3rd of January 1957 | EVENT | The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. |
| 3rd of January 1958 | EVENT | The West Indies Federation is formed. |
| 3rd of January 1959 | EVENT | Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. State. |
| 3rd of January 1961 | EVENT | The SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, leaks radiation, killing three workers. |
| 3rd of January 1961 | EVENT | The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba. |
| 3rd of January 1962 | EVENT | Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro. |
| 3rd of January 1977 | EVENT | Apple Computer is incorporated. |
| 3rd of January 1990 | EVENT | Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces. |
| 3rd of January 1993 | EVENT | In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). |
| 3rd of January 1994 | EVENT | An Aeroflot Tupolev TU-154 crashes and explodes after takeoff from Irkutsk, Russia, killing 125 people including one on the ground. |
| 3rd of January 1994 | EVENT | More than seven million people from the former Apartheid Homelands, receive South African citizenship. |
| 3rd of January 1997 | EVENT | The People's Republic of China announces it will spend $27.7 billion USD to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow river valleys. |
| 3rd of January 1999 | EVENT | The Mars Polar Lander is launched. |
| 3rd of January 1999 | EVENT | Israel detains, and later expels, 14 members of Concerned Christians. |
| 3rd of January 2004 | EVENT | Flight 604, a Boeing 737 owned by Flash Airlines, an Egyptian airliner, plunges into the Red Sea, killing all 148 people on board. |
| 3rd of January 2007 | EVENT | National Express has its worst ever coach crash just outside Heathrow Airport. |
| 3rd of January 1196 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1231) |
| 3rd of January 1698 | BIRTHDAY | Pietro Metastasio, Italian poet (d. 1782) |
| 3rd of January 1710 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1796) |
| 3rd of January 1719 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco Jose Freire, Portuguese historian (d. 1773) |
| 3rd of January 1722 | BIRTHDAY | Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (d. 1752) |
| 3rd of January 1733 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Richard Arkwright, British industrialist and inventor (d. 1792) |
| 3rd of January 1760 | BIRTHDAY | John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1835) |
| 3rd of January 1778 | BIRTHDAY | Antoni Melchior Fija?kowski, Polish bishop (d. 1861) |
| 3rd of January 1793 | BIRTHDAY | Lucretia Mott, American women's rights activist (d. 1880) |
| 3rd of January 1802 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Pelham Villiers, British House of Commons member (d. 1898) |
| 3rd of January 1803 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas William Jerrold, British playwright (d. 1857) |
| 3rd of January 1806 | BIRTHDAY | Henriette Sontag, German soprano (d. 1854) |
| 3rd of January 1810 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, French geographer (d. 1897) |
| 3rd of January 1819 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal for Scotland (d. 1900) |
| 3rd of January 1821 | BIRTHDAY | Dragotin Dezman, Slovenian politician, archeologist and botanist (d. 1889) |
| 3rd of January 1831 | BIRTHDAY | Savitribai Phule, Indian social activist and educator (d. 1897) |
| 3rd of January 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Sakamoto Ryoma, Japanese revolutionary (d. 1867) |
| 3rd of January 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Father Damien, Flemish missionary (d. 1889) |
| 3rd of January 1855 | BIRTHDAY | Hubert Bland, British socialist (d. 1914) |
| 3rd of January 1856 | BIRTHDAY | R. C. Lehmann, English writer (d. 1929) |
| 3rd of January 1861 | BIRTHDAY | William Renshaw, British champion tennis player (d. 1904) |
| 3rd of January 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Matthew Nathan, British Governor of Queensland (d. 1939) |
| 3rd of January 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Lytton, British actor and opera singer (d. 1936) |
| 3rd of January 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Handel Richardson, Australian author (d. 1946) |
| 3rd of January 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese businessman (d. 1957) |
| 3rd of January 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandros Diomidis, Greek banker and politician (d. 1950) |
| 3rd of January 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Pieck, East Germany statesman (d. 1960) |
| 3rd of January 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (d. 1957) |
| 3rd of January 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1967) |
| 3rd of January 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Raoul von Koczalski, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1948) |
| 3rd of January 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Elkins Widener, American book collector and victim of the RMS Titanic sinking (d. 1912) |
| 3rd of January 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Josephine Hull, American actress (d. 1957) |
| 3rd of January 1886 | BIRTHDAY | John Gould Fletcher, American poet and author (d. 1950) |
| 3rd of January 1887 | BIRTHDAY | August Macke, German painter (d. 1914) |
| 3rd of January 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Parkhurst, American educator (d. 1973) |
| 3rd of January 1892 | BIRTHDAY | J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (d. 1973) |
| 3rd of January 1894 | BIRTHDAY | ZaSu Pitts, American actress (d. 1963) |
| 3rd of January 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Borys Lyatoshynsky, Ukrainian composer (d. 1968) |
| 3rd of January 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Marion Davies, American actress (d. 1961) |
| 3rd of January 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Keller, Chilean fascist politician (d. 1974) |
| 3rd of January 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Donald J. Russell, North American railroad executive (d. 1985) |
| 3rd of January 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Ngo ?inh Diem, South Vietnamese politician (d. 1963) |
| 3rd of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Milland, British actor (d. 1986) |
| 3rd of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Anna May Wong, American actress (d. 1961) |
| 3rd of January 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Borge, Danish entertainer (d. 2000) |
| 3rd of January 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player (d. 2000) |
| 3rd of January 1911 | BIRTHDAY | John Sturges, American director (d. 1982) |
| 3rd of January 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Renaude Lapointe, Canadian journalist and senator (d. 2002) |
| 3rd of January 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Armand Lohikoski, Finnish director (d. 2005) |
| 3rd of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Mady Rahl, German actress (d. 2009) |
| 3rd of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Levine, American painter (d. 2010) |
| 3rd of January 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Maxene Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (d. 1995) |
| 3rd of January 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Betty Furness, American actress (d. 1994) |
| 3rd of January 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Greenhouse, American cellist |
| 3rd of January 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (d. 2004) |
| 3rd of January 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Vernon Walters, American military officer and diplomat (d. 2002) |
| 3rd of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Renato Carosone, Italian musician (d. 2001) |
| 3rd of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | John Russell, American actor (d. 1991) |
| 3rd of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Ronald Smith, British pianist (d. 2004) |
| 3rd of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Travers, British actor and director (d. 1994) |
| 3rd of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Hank Stram, American football coach (d. 2005) |
| 3rd of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Tingwell, Australian actor (d. 2009) |
| 3rd of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Franquin, Belgian cartoonist (Gaston Lagaffe) (d. 1997) |
| 3rd of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Nell Rankin, American singer (d. 2005) |
| 3rd of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Ellis, British entrepreneur |
| 3rd of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Jill Balcon, British actress (d. 2009) |
| 3rd of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | W. Michael Blumenthal, American businessman, civil servant, and 64th United States Secretary of the Treasury |
| 3rd of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | George Martin, British record producer |
| 3rd of January 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Mahle, Brazilian composer |
| 3rd of January 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Sergio Leone, Italian director (d. 1989) |
| 3rd of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Dube, Quebec playwright |
| 3rd of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Loggia, American actor |
| 3rd of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (d. 2005) |
| 3rd of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Dabney Coleman, American actor |
| 3rd of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Tongolele, American-born Mexican dancer |
| 3rd of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Carla Hills, American jurist, civil servant, and 5th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development |
| 3rd of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Garneau, French Canadian politician and businessman |
| 3rd of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | David Vine, British sports commentator (d. 2009) |
| 3rd of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Seri Wangnaitham, Thai dancer and choreographer (d. 2007) |
| 3rd of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Alefantos, Greek football manager |
| 3rd of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Janice Crosio, Australian politician |
| 3rd of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Hull, Canadian hockey player |
| 3rd of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Summers, American musician |
| 3rd of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ruben Reyes, Filipino Supreme Court jurist |
| 3rd of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Van Dyke Parks, American musician |
| 3rd of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | John Thaw, British actor (d. 2002) |
| 3rd of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | John Marsden, Australian lawyer, gay activist (d. 2006) |
| 3rd of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Jarl Alfredius, Swedish news anchor (d. 2009) |
| 3rd of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | David Atherton, British conductor |
| 3rd of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Blanche d'Alpuget, Australian novelist, biographer |
| 3rd of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Stills, American musician |
| 3rd of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | John Paul Jones, British musician (Led Zeppelin) |
| 3rd of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Cissy King, American entertainer |
| 3rd of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (d. 1965) |
| 3rd of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Victoria Principal, American actress |
| 3rd of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Nairn, Australian politician |
| 3rd of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Ross, American wrestling announcer |
| 3rd of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Gianfranco Fini, Italian politician |
| 3rd of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Fleming, Australian playwright and writer |
| 3rd of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Hart, Canadian wrestler (d. 1990) |
| 3rd of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Ned Lamont, American businessman and political figure |
| 3rd of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Ross the Boss, American guitarist |
| 3rd of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Palmolive, British musician (The Slits, The Raincoats) |
| 3rd of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Mel Gibson, American-Australian actor and director |
| 3rd of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Willy T. Ribbs, American race-car driver |
| 3rd of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Bojan Kriz??, Slovenian skier |
| 3rd of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Shim Hyung-rae, South Korean filmmaker |
| 3rd of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | James J. Greco, American businessman |
| 3rd of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Vic Grimes, American professional wrestler |
| 3rd of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Wheatle, British novelist |
| 3rd of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jerome Young, American professional wrestler |
| 3rd of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce LaBruce, Canadian filmmaker |
| 3rd of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Steven A. LaChance, American Author |
| 3rd of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Galway, Northern Ireland composer |
| 3rd of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Schumacher, German seven-time world champion Formula 1 race driver |
| 3rd of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Gerda Weissensteiner, Italian bobsledder and luger |
| 3rd of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Duguay, American comic actor |
| 3rd of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Mahaya Petrosian, Iranian actress |
| 3rd of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Ross, American actor |
| 3rd of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Cory Cross, Canadian ice-hockey player |
| 3rd of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Alexander, English actress |
| 3rd of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Yoon Chan, South Korean actor |
| 3rd of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Nichole Nordeman, American singer |
| 3rd of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Alessandro Petacchi, Italian cyclist |
| 3rd of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Marsden, American actor |
| 3rd of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Danica McKellar, American actress |
| 3rd of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Bangalter, French DJ (Daft Punk) |
| 3rd of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Angelos Basinas, Greek footballer |
| 3rd of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Alisen Down, Canadian actress |
| 3rd of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Dinara Drukarova, Russian actress |
| 3rd of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Nicholas Gonzalez, American actor |
| 3rd of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Bowyer, British footballer |
| 3rd of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | A.J. Burnett, American baseball player |
| 3rd of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Stephenson, British singer (Spice Girls) |
| 3rd of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Mayumi Iizuka, Japanese voice actress (seiyu) |
| 3rd of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Park Sol-mi, South Korean actress |
| 3rd of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kimberley Locke, American singer |
| 3rd of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Dominic Wood, English children's television presenter |
| 3rd of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Mike York, American ice hockey player |
| 3rd of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Liya Kebede, Ethiopian model |
| 3rd of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Geddes, Canadian volleyball player |
| 3rd of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Angela Ruggiero, American ice hockey player |
| 3rd of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Clay, American decathlete |
| 3rd of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | David Tyree, American football player |
| 3rd of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Naresh Iyer, Indian singer |
| 3rd of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Eli Manning, American football player |
| 3rd of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Antti Arst, Estonian footballer |
| 3rd of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Mehmet, Irish footballer |
| 3rd of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Linas Kleiza, Lithuanian basketball player |
| 3rd of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | John David Booty, American football player |
| 3rd of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Evan Moore, American football player |
| 3rd of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Lloyd Polite, American R&B singer |
| 3rd of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jacob Timpano, Australian footballer |
| 3rd of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica O'Rourke, American footballer |
| 3rd of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Leonidas Panagopoulos, Greek footballer |
| 3rd of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Rodrigo de la Cadena, Mexican artist and performer |
| 3rd of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Nunes, American singer and ukulele player |
| 3rd of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Alex D. Linz, American actor |
| 3rd of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Anya Rozova, Russian/American model |
| 3rd of January 0235 | DEATH | Pope St. Anterus |
| 3rd of January 0323 | DEATH | Jin Yuandi, Chinese emperor of the Jin Dynasty (Born 276) |
| 3rd of January 1098 | DEATH | Walkelin, Norman bishop of Winchester |
| 3rd of January 1322 | DEATH | King Philip V of France (Born 1293) |
| 3rd of January 1437 | DEATH | Catherine of Valois, wife of Henry V of England (Born 1401) |
| 3rd of January 1543 | DEATH | Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer (Born 1499) |
| 3rd of January 1571 | DEATH | Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (Born 1505) |
| 3rd of January 1641 | DEATH | Jeremiah Horrocks, British astronomer (Born 1618) |
| 3rd of January 1656 | DEATH | Mathieu Mole, French statesman (Born 1584) |
| 3rd of January 1670 | DEATH | George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, British soldier (Born 1608) |
| 3rd of January 1690 | DEATH | Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi, Lithuanian rabbi (Born 1615) |
| 3rd of January 1701 | DEATH | Prince Louis I of Monaco (Born 1642) |
| 3rd of January 1743 | DEATH | Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect and designer (Born 1657) |
| 3rd of January 1779 | DEATH | Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (Born 1712) |
| 3rd of January 1785 | DEATH | Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (Born 1706) |
| 3rd of January 1795 | DEATH | Josiah Wedgwood, British potter (Born 1730) |
| 3rd of January 1813 | DEATH | Bennelong, Aborigine interlocutor (Born c.1764) |
| 3rd of January 1826 | DEATH | Louis Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (Born 1770) |
| 3rd of January 1871 | DEATH | Kuriakose Elias Chavara, Indian Saint (Born 1805) |
| 3rd of January 1875 | DEATH | Pierre Larousse, French editor (Born 1817) |
| 3rd of January 1882 | DEATH | William Harrison Ainsworth, British novelist (Born 1805) |
| 3rd of January 1895 | DEATH | James Merritt Ives, American lithographer (Born 1824) |
| 3rd of January 1903 | DEATH | Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (Born 1837) |
| 3rd of January 1911 | DEATH | Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (Born 1851) |
| 3rd of January 1915 | DEATH | James Elroy Flecker, British author (Born 1884) |
| 3rd of January 1916 | DEATH | Grenville M. Dodge, American Major General (Born 1831) |
| 3rd of January 1923 | DEATH | Jaroslav Hasek, Czech novelist (Born 1883) |
| 3rd of January 1927 | DEATH | Carle David Tolme Runge, German physicist (Born 1856) |
| 3rd of January 1931 | DEATH | Joseph Joffre, French general (Born 1852) |
| 3rd of January 1933 | DEATH | Wilhelm Cuno, German staesman (Born 1876) |
| 3rd of January 1933 | DEATH | Jack Pickford, Canadian actor (Born 1896) |
| 3rd of January 1943 | DEATH | Sir Walter James, Australian politician (Born 1863) |
| 3rd of January 1943 | DEATH | F. M. Cornford, English classical scholar and poet (Born 1874) |
| 3rd of January 1944 | DEATH | Jurgis Baltrusaitis, Lithuanian poet (Born 1873) |
| 3rd of January 1945 | DEATH | Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (Born 1879) |
| 3rd of January 1945 | DEATH | Edgar Cayce, American psychic (Born 1877) |
| 3rd of January 1946 | DEATH | William Joyce, American propagandist (Born 1906) |
| 3rd of January 1950 | DEATH | Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (Born 1884) |
| 3rd of January 1956 | DEATH | Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (Born 1864) |
| 3rd of January 1956 | DEATH | Joseph Wirth, German statesman (Born 1876) |
| 3rd of January 1959 | DEATH | Edwin Muir, Orcadian poet, novelist and translator (Born 1887) |
| 3rd of January 1962 | DEATH | Hermann Lux, German footballer (Born 1893) |
| 3rd of January 1967 | DEATH | Mary Garden, British singer (Born 1874) |
| 3rd of January 1967 | DEATH | Jack Ruby, American killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (Born 1911) |
| 3rd of January 1969 | DEATH | Jean Focas, Greek-born astronomer (Born 1909) |
| 3rd of January 1969 | DEATH | Howard McNear, American actor (Born 1905) |
| 3rd of January 1970 | DEATH | Gladys Aylward, British missionary (Born 1902) |
| 3rd of January 1974 | DEATH | Gino Cervi, Italian actor (Born 1901) |
| 3rd of January 1979 | DEATH | Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (Born 1887) |
| 3rd of January 1980 | DEATH | Joy Adamson, Czech conservationist (Born 1910) |
| 3rd of January 1980 | DEATH | Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist (Born 1892) |
| 3rd of January 1980 | DEATH | George Sutherland Fraser, Scottish poet and academic (Born 1915) |
| 3rd of January 1981 | DEATH | Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (Born 1883) |
| 3rd of January 1988 | DEATH | Rose Auslander, German poet (Born 1901) |
| 3rd of January 1988 | DEATH | Joie Chitwood, American racing driver and stuntman (Born 1912) |
| 3rd of January 1989 | DEATH | Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (Born 1909) |
| 3rd of January 1990 | DEATH | Arthur Gold, American pianist (Born 1917) |
| 3rd of January 1992 | DEATH | Dame Judith Anderson, Australian actress (Born 1897) |
| 3rd of January 1993 | DEATH | Johnny Most, American sports announcer (Born 1923) |
| 3rd of January 1994 | DEATH | Heather Sears, British actress (Born 1935) |
| 3rd of January 2002 | DEATH | Juan Garcia Esquivel, Mexican band leader (Born 1918) |
| 3rd of January 2002 | DEATH | Freddy Heineken, Dutch beer executive (Born 1923) |
| 3rd of January 2003 | DEATH | Sid Gillman, American football coach (Born 1911) |
| 3rd of January 2004 | DEATH | Des Corcoran, Premier of South Australia (Born 1928) |
| 3rd of January 2004 | DEATH | Leon Wagner, American baseball player (Born 1934) |
| 3rd of January 2005 | DEATH | Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator (Born 1917) |
| 3rd of January 2005 | DEATH | Will Eisner, American comic book artist (Born 1917) |
| 3rd of January 2005 | DEATH | JN Dixit, Indian government official (Born 1936) |
| 3rd of January 2006 | DEATH | Bill Skate, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (Born 1954) |
| 3rd of January 2006 | DEATH | Steve Rogers, Australian rugby league footballer (Born 1954) |
| 3rd of January 2007 | DEATH | Janos Furst, Hungarian orchestral conductor (Born 1935) |
| 3rd of January 2007 | DEATH | Sergio Jimenez, Mexican actor (Born 1937) |
| 3rd of January 2007 | DEATH | William Verity Jr., American industrialist and 28th Secretary of Commerce (Born 1917) |
| 3rd of January 2007 | DEATH | Sir Cecil Walker, Northern Irish pilitician (Born 1924) |
| 3rd of January 2007 | DEATH | Earl Reibel, Canadian hockey player (Born 1930) |
| 3rd of January 2007 | DEATH | Michael Yeats, Irish barrister, politician and son of W.B. Yeats (Born 1921) |
| 3rd of January 2008 | DEATH | Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (Born 1953) |
| 3rd of January 2008 | DEATH | Yo-Sam Choi, South Korean boxer (Born 1972) |
| 3rd of January 2008 | DEATH | Werner Dollinger, German politician and economist (Born 1918) |
| 3rd of January 2008 | DEATH | Natasha Collins, British actress and television presenter (Born 1976) |
| 3rd of January 2009 | DEATH | Pat Hingle, American actor (Born 1924) |
| 3rd of January 2009 | DEATH | Hisayasu Nagata, Japanese politician (Born 1969) |
| 3rd of January 2009 | DEATH | Ulf G. Linden, Swedish entrepreneur (Born 1937) |
| 3rd of January 2009 | DEATH | Betty Freeman, American philanthropist and photographer (Born 1921) |
| 3rd of January 2010 | DEATH | Sir Ian Brownlie, British lawyer (Born 1932) |
| 3rd of January 2010 | DEATH | Mary Daly, American theologian and feminist scholar (Born 1928) |
| 3rd of January 2010 | DEATH | Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, Chilean composer (Born 1925) |
| 3rd of January 2011 | DEATH | Fadil Hadzic, Croatian film director (Born 23 April 1922) |